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On int to the negative integral power, let float handle it instead of

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raising an error.  This was one of the two issues that the VPython
folks were particularly problematic for their students.  (The other
one was integer division...)  This implements (my) SF patch #440487.
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Guido van Rossum 2001-07-12 11:19:45 +00:00
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@ -510,13 +510,11 @@ int_pow(PyIntObject *v, PyIntObject *w, PyIntObject *z)
CONVERT_TO_LONG(v, iv);
CONVERT_TO_LONG(w, iw);
if (iw < 0) {
if (iv)
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError,
"cannot raise integer to a negative power");
else
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ZeroDivisionError,
"cannot raise 0 to a negative power");
return NULL;
/* Return a float. This works because we know that
this calls float_pow() which converts its
arguments to double. */
return PyFloat_Type.tp_as_number->nb_power(
(PyObject *)v, (PyObject *)w, (PyObject *)z);
}
if ((PyObject *)z != Py_None) {
CONVERT_TO_LONG(z, iz);